Love my Fuji X-E2s. It is the best camera I have ever owned, hands down. Whether I’m using an old Pentax lens on it or the pricey but awesome Fuji lenses, the thing is a joy to use. That said, I don’t bring it with me nearly as often as I should. I feel awkward…

Back in the spring I wrote an automator action that incorporated some Python code to take a downloaded Amazon Order History file and massage it into a nice Markdown table and creates a Day One entry. A few months back though the Day One command line tool stopped working and that broke this action. But…

Really pulled my hair out for a while on this issue so hoping to help someone out here. set newToDo to make new to do ¬ with properties {name:CurrentTodo} at beginning of list “Today” This, despite the Cultured Code documentation using Today as an example list in the AppleScript guide. So, if you use that…

Ambitiously titling this post Friday Links thinking that I may be able to do it again next Friday and the one after that. We’ll see! Anyway, some links I’ve enjoyed from around the web over the past few days: The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr – Ferdy Christant When you support free, you support billionaires. When…

I wrote a script to extract some text from a PDF (image-based text, so pdftotext wouldn’t work). Using pdf2image convert_from_path I simply could not get any data out of the pdf. I tried multiple PDFs while testing and convert_from_path just kept returning an empty variable. Turned out that my homebrew install of xpdf was interfering…

The Alchemist by Paula Coelho was recommended to me by the Goodreads algorithm, which apparently stinks as the only thing that kept me turning the pages in this book was the suspense of trying to figure out why the heck this book was recommended to me. Not my bag I suppose. Have been slowly making…

I feel like my own feet have worn a path in the ground from the Finch’s to the schoolyard over these past few days.

My first immediate inital impression of the Brydge keyboard for the 11-inch iPad Pro is that it feels like the keyboard is too small and it won’t work out, not that I have huge hands or anything but because I am a pretty damn fast touch typist and the size of the keys makes me…

Man, I wish I had thought of this earlier! I love my Philips Hue setup. If you’re a parent of a kid who gets up every day at, say, 4:50am, there’s nothing better than being able to come downstairs on an early December morning to some very dim orange-hued lights and Windam Hill playing low…